It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a poor man to enter into the middle kingdom in America. Thus sayeth the Times.
These hyperbolic Republican primaries are bogus. As if we did not implode 3 years ago because of 8 years of Bushian malfeasance.
Maybe it’s not the primaries that are bogus, maybe it is the idea of cultural evolution. Look, the practice of Social Darwinism has not evolved in over a hundred years and is the driving animate behind every Republican contender.
There is a direct line of progenitors from 19th century intellectual ancestors to the spunk filled ex- speaker Gingrich, the anti-contraception Santorum, and the venal Romney robototom. Newt says give ‘em a broom, Mitt wants to fire ‘em, and Santorum wants to marry ‘em. Ron Paul could give a shit.
I don’t know who is scarier, senator slash Santorum or the philandering ex-speaker? How far it is from saying contraceptives are licenses for licensure, to Gingrich defending every kind of social control… until we get paeans to eugenics and sterilization? Don’t believe it could happen here?
The eugenics movement in America is known to have left 60,000 people sterilized.
I would have thought with all the statins taken in the U.S., sclerotic thinking would have withered away, but social Darwinism, and diabetes, are on the rise.
Social Darwinism—what is it? A quasi-philosophical, quasi-religious, quasi-sociological view aborn from Herbert Spencer. God’s invisible hand shapes human society by placing the fittest—who happen to be those who can make the most money— in a position of dominance. An enlightened society follows these exemplars and ought to weed out its unfit, permitting them to die off, keeping the racial stock pure and strong. What is, should be.
Between 1910-1940, 27 states passed sterilization laws and acted on the: sterilizing native Americans, Jews, Mexicans, epileptics, mentally ill, African Americans, and other unfits; Congress passed a law restricting immigration from unfit countries; and miscegenation laws were rampant.
It can happen here. Don’t be snowed by the dwarves.
